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Secunia Advisory SA15673

Symantec pcAnywhere Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA15673
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Release Date 2005-06-12
Last Update 2005-06-15
   
Popularity 10,356 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Privilege escalation
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Symantec pcAnywhere 10.x
Symantec pcAnywhere 11.x
Symantec pcAnywhere 9.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2005-1970 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in pcAnywhere, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a design error making it possible for a non-privileged, local user to gain SYSTEM privileges by manipulating the "Caller Properties" feature to run arbitrary commands when the system is restarted.

Successful exploitation requires that the program has been configured to run as a service ("Launch with Windows" setting enabled).


Solution
Update to version 11.5 or apply patch.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by vendor.

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Symantec:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.06.10.html

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area


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